State DOTs

States already have the money to retrofit their "orphan highways" to be safer for people outside cars — if they'd just put it to good use.

Why are state DOTs so overwhelmingly white and male — and what impact does it have on road users who don't share those identities?

"Endless highway expansions are pulling our country into an environmental, budgetary, and public health crisis," the letter states.

State DOTs play a central role in the safety and sustainability of transportation systems because states set policies. Here are two that do it poorly and two that do it well.

Which states have adopted policies that require their transportation officials to make choices that reduce emissions and make roads more equitable – and which are doing the exact opposite?

Minnesota's new state transportation financing and policy bill reads like a sustainable transportation advocates' holiday wishlist. How did they get there— and could it be a model for other communities, too?

The post Did Minnesota Just Release the Best Statewide Transportation Bill Yet? appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

A poison pill buried within the new debt ceiling deal would "gut" key elements of the nation's bedrock environmental law in exchange for preventing a national default and could make it easier for highway-building agencies to expedite road projects that harm vulnerable communities for generations, advocates warn.

A new study finds that departments of transportation can and must do more to protect a particularly vulnerable group: the unhoused people who take shelter on and alongside American roads.